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I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
Tony Campolo
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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
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But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
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There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.
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I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.
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I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.
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I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
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One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.
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As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
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I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.
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I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
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In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
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